On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:57 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed -- I had to do this a couple of days ago, and in my notes > (I do take notes when doing such things: age and that) I see > > "Jeez. What a Rube Goldberg. Should I say Grube Goldberg?" > > It's one of those cases where each step towards building the tower > seems to make sense, and at the end you say "wait: how did we arrive > here?".
A post of those notes (with an addition on whether they worked or not) might be very interesting to a fellow Debian user of the elderly persuasion :-) This thread on grub2 is getting really scary. I'm afraid to make changes in the grub2 configs because an error could easily brick my machine. And futzing with /etc/default doesn't seem to impress grub2 a whole lot. Not concerning what I want to do, anyway. I think that what I'm wanting to do is completely remove some kernels from grub2's consideration and go back to one that works for me -- that seems to be a tricky job. The installer and the updater send magic incantations to grub2 that successfully add/delete kernels to the boot process. Anybody have any idea what those might be? How about just removing all references to the ones I don't want from /boot and running update-grub? -- Glenn English
